Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
Don't pick a cofounder that – has something better to do– wants to see how it goes– has a clear backup plan– sees it as risky– argues over who should…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
Burnout is a real risk in SaaS. Not usually in the early days. But as time marches on — It’s a huge risk. One piece of “evidence” — a…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARRVPS: $1-$1.5m ARRVPCS: $2m ARRVPP: $3m-$4m ARRVPE: $5m-$6m ARRCFO: $10m ARRCOO: $20m ARR More here: https://t.co/dYgFU0H1pp — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership
Second-timers know the playbook and can execute against it faster. But often times, they also have a bit of healthy skepticism, a bit of baggage, from the last time. First-timers…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
Some founders just quit,Even once they have something. You can tell themYou can help themYou can hug themYou can fund them But sometimes, It’s just been too hard. Find someone…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership
We’ve been 9 years on this one… but now it’s working https://t.co/3ItgEdZCR7 — Mariano Suarez-Battan (@batmelon) August 26, 2020 I was recently at a dinner with a founder of…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, Leadership
For a long while, you probably aren't a great CEO But you know the customersThe softwareThe feature gapsThe roadmapThe competitionHow to sell itHow to market itHow to build it So…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Podcasts, Videos
Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today and looks to answer, is Cloud growth sustainable?
Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Q&A
Q: What are the signs that an entrepreneur will always be small time? “Always” is a bit extreme. But let me share what I’ve learned are signs an entrepreneur likely…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&A
End of an era. I am sad today https://t.co/oBGDoYcClM — Rashmi Sinha (@rashmi) August 11, 2020 Money matters. Money is part of why we do this, maybe more in the…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership
Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Leadership
Being a founder and especially being a founder-CEO changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Hiring, Leadership
SaaStr has now passed 10,000+ pieces of content, and we’ve somewhat gone on a journey from the early days of a SaaS company, through the growth phases, to the Unstoppable…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Hiring, Human Resources
I think the average "manager" level tech hire sort of plans on staying 18 mos. Long enough to get settled, learn a bit, then find something "better Makes sense, but:…
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Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts
Ep. 353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is sponsored by…
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